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HEALTH Learner’s Materials

UNIT 2

Department of Education Republic of the Philippines

This instructional material was collaboratively developed and reviewed by educators from public and private schools, colleges, and or/universities. We encourage teachers and other education stakeholders to email their feedback, comments, and recommendations to the Department of Education at action@deped.gov.ph.

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Health – Grade 3 Learner’s Material First Edition, 2013 ISBN: 978-971-0468-21-8

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Development Team of the Learner’s Material Reviewers: Mark Kenneth S. Camiling, Rhodora L. Formento, Evelina M.

Vicencio Authors: Rizaldy R. Cristo, Minerva C. David, Aidena Nuesca, Jennifer E.

Quinto, Gezyl G. Ramos, Emerson O. Sabadlab Illustrator: Eric de S. Guia, Fermin M. Fabella, Raemon C. Dela Peña Encoders: Danica Nicole G. Baña Proof reviewer: Salvacion Olinares Focal Person: Nerisa M. Beltran

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Table of Contents

Quarter 2 – Personal Health/Prevention and Control of Diseases and Disorders

Lesson 1: Health and wellness ............................................ 2

Lesson 2: Sickness troubles .................................................. 7

Lesson 3: Factors on the go ................................................ 10

Lesson 4: Be healthy with clean body ............................... 13

Lesson 5: Build up for a healthy fight ................................. 17

Lesson 6: Get protection from your health ....................... 22

Lesson 7: Clean for better health ....................................... 26

Lesson 8: Living up a healthy life ........................................ 29

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QUARTER 2

PERSONAL HEALTH

PREVENTION OF DISEASES

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INTRODUCTION:

Good health keeps us away from diseases. Taking care of oneself is one way to be healthy. This module will help you understand health and wellness to practice healthy habits to prevent common childhood diseases. So now, get ready to learn and be healthy. Always remember that health is wealth but we need to work for it.

Lesson 1: Health and Wellness Healthy Idols Do you know a healthy person? Write the name of the healthy people that you know. List or draw as many as you can. Answer: What makes them healthy? What is health?

Let’s Try! 

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Activity 1: Healthy One Draw yourself inside the circle. What are the activities that make you healthy?    

 

Health is the complete well-being of body, mind, feeling, spirit and relationship with others.

Let’s Do This! 

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Activity 2: Wellness on Go

Which pictures show a healthy person? Encircle the correct pictures.

Good health is called wellness.

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Activity 3: Let’s Go for Health and Wellness

Use the codes to unlock the message for wellness. Write your answer on the boxes provided.

Healthy lifestyle equals wellness.

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I promise to keep my body healthy. I will ______________________________. I will ______________________________. I will ______________________________. I will ______________________________. Pupil’s Name: ___________________________ Parent’s Signature: ______________________

Healthy Promise Write your own healthy promise. Sign at the bottom of your promise. Ask your parents also to sign.

MY HEALTHY PROMISE

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let’s Check! 

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Lesson 2: Sickness Troubles Oh My, I’m Sick! Have you been sick?  List diseases that you have experienced. Activity 1: Sickness Bingo Complete the human bingo. You may ask the help of your family and friends. Write their names on the appropriate boxes.

Has Colds today

Got Dengue

Was absent in class

because of Influenza/ Flu

Experienced

Parasitic intestinal infestation

Knows what is

Malara

Had Chickenpox

Let’s Try! 

Let’s Do This! 

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Had

Sore Eyes

Read about Tuberculosis

Got Measles when

still a baby

Heard news about Meningococcemia

Suffered from

Pediculosis

Had Mumps

Activity 2: Just Can’t Forget It When was the last time you got sick? How did you feel? What did you do about it? Write a short paragraph about your experience. Put a title to your work.

 

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Health Advisory Visit your barangay health center. Ask for a recent health advisory/news on diseases. Make a poster about the advisory you learned. Include a brief description, its effect and who are mostly affected. Be ready to present it in your class.

Let’s Check! 

Disease is an abnormal condition of the body which affects the normal function of our body and mind. There are diseases which commonly affect young children like you.

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Lesson 3: Factors on the Go Picture Says Study the pictures below. What does each picture show? Activity 1: Sickness Factors Identify the contributing factors of diseases. Write H if it is Heredity, L if it is Lifestyle and E if it is environment. Put your answers on the blank provided. ________ 1. Mang Pedro got lung disease because of smoking.

________ 2. Rene has a family medical history of heart disease.

________ 3. Lito acquired diabetes from eating too much sweets

and fats.

Let’s Try! 

Let’s Do This! 

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________ 4. There was a malaria outbreak at the evacuation

center.

________ 5. Dengue is carried by mosquitoes which live in dirty and

moist areas.

Activity 2: Friend or Foe Classify the items below. Which are like friends who can make us healthy? Which are like foes who can make us sick? Write in the appropriate column.

Your heredity, lifestyle, and environment are contributing factors of diseases. Heredity includes the genes you inherit from your parents. Lifestyle refers to your health practices Environment includes your surroundings and all its elements.

Rest Smoking Clean body Immunization

Germs Polluted air Dirty water Check-ups

Exercise Balanced diet Household pests

Abnormal Tissues

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FRIENDS 1. _______________________

2. _______________________

3. _______________________

4. _______________________

5. _______________________

6. _______________________

FOES

1. ___________________________

2. ___________________________

3. ___________________________

4. ___________________________

5. ___________________________

6. ___________________________

Maze for Health Complete the maze below. Write along the maze 5 items that can make you healthy. Write on the Stop signs 3 items that can make you sick.

Let’s Check! 

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Lesson 4: Be Healthy with Clean Body ng Sing a Song Sing the song to the tune of “Clap your Hands”

Cleanup your Body

Brush your teeth so gaily, gaily, gaily

Brush your teeth so gaily,

Brush, brush, brush

Wash your face so gently, gently, gently

Wash your face so gently

Wash, wash, wash

Comb your hair so lightly, lightly, lightly

Comb your hair so lightly

Comb, comb, comb

Let’s Try! 

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Activity1: Cleaning is Fun! How do these items help you? Describe how each item below helps you.

1. ___________________________________

___________________________________ ___________________________________

2 ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________

3. ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________

4. __________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Activity 2: Check for Health 

Put a check (√) inside the box if the statement is a hygienic practice and (X) if it is not.

Let’s Do This! 

 

 

 

 

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1. Luis washes his feet before going to bed.

2. Ali bites his nail when bored and nervous.

3. Carlo brushes his teeth after every meal.

4. Leo takes a bath only when it is a sunny day.

5. Ana always washes her long and shiny hair.

6. Juan takes off his slippers when playing outside.

7. Kat changes her favorite dress every other day.

8. Patrick washes his hands before and after eating.

Activity 3: Post for Health Make a poster on ways to keep the body clean. Self-Checklist Check the appropriate column for your health behaviour. Do this in your notebook.

Let’s Check! 

One way for you to prevent catching common childhood diseases is to maintain proper hygiene at all times.

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Healthy Practices Always Sometimes Never

1. I take a bath. 2. I wash my hair. 3. I clean my face. 4. I brush my teeth. 5. I change my clothes. 6. I cut my nails regularly. 7. I change my underwear. 8. I consult a doctor twice a

year.

9. I wash my wash after using the toilet.

10. I wash my hands before and after eating.

 

Collage for Hygiene

Collect pictures proper hygiene practices. Make a collage and paste it on a card board. Give a title to your work.

Let’s Do this at Home 

Let’s take note… Health is personal. You are the one responsible for your own health.

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Lesson 5: Build up for a Healthy Fight Being Active Is Fun! Look at the pictures. Imitate the movement of each animal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let’s Try! 

Jump like a bunny  

Stretch like a cat  

Run like a gorilla

 

Walk like a spider

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Activity 1: Get Physical Pyramid List your physical activities. Write appropriate activities for each level. Make sure to follow the pyramid for your health. Do this in your notebook.

Activity 2: Balanced Diet with Pyramid and Plate Study at the Food Plate and Food Pyramid below.

Let’s Do This! 

Cut down

3- 5x a week

2-3x a week

Everyday

I need at least 30-60 minutes of daily physical activities to maintain a healthy body.

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Complete your healthy plates for a day based on the food plate and food pyramid above. Draw this in your notebook. Activity 3: Get Enough Rest and Sleep Now, let’s check your bedtime for a week. Record your bedtime and wakeup time daily. Ask your parents to sign in the last column.

DAY BEDTIME WAKE-UP TIME

HOURS OF SLEEP

PARENT’S SIGNATURE

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

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Crossword Puzzle Time Answer the puzzle below. Vertical (Down) 1. Basic exercise that uses legs and feet 2. Nutrients found in fruits 5. Fun activities outside Horizontal 3. Opposite of being weak 4. You must do it every night

Let’s Check! 

My body needs enough rest and sleep to be healthy. Children like me need 10-11 hours of sleep at night. I also need to rest after doing a physical activity so that my body can regain strength.

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1.

2. 3. 4. 5.

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Lesson 6: Get Protection for your Health Read aloud Read the dialogue between Roy and Eva.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let’s Try! 

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Activity 1: Get Rid of Germs

What are the diseases that can be prevented through immunization? Color them.

Let’s Do This! 

Immunization gives protection against specific diseases. I must have complete immunization. I can go to the barangay health care center for free immunization.

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Activity 2: Know Your Immunization Record Ask your parents what immunizations you have had. List them in your notebook.

 

My Immunization

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

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Immunization Core Why is Immunization important? Write 1-2 sentences below.

Let’s Check! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Content(3)

Structure (2)

Total (5)

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Lesson 7: Clean-up for Healthy Environment Community Check-up Look around your community. Write in the circles the things that make your community healthful. Write outside the circles the things that make it unhealthful. Do this in your notebook.

Let’s Try! 

Let’s take note…

A healthy environment ________________________________________

___________________________________________________________.

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Activity 1: Cleaning-up Circle the pictures that show ways to keep the surroundings clean.

Activity 2: Clean-up Promise

Make a promise on how you will keep your surroundings clean. Do this in your notebook.

Let’s Do This! 

Let’s take note…

Everybody must take part in keeping our environment clean.

A healthy environment makes people healthy..

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Draw a picture of ways you can keep your environment clean.

Your work will be marked as follows:

Content-----6 pts.

Creativity—2 pts.

Neatness—2 pts.

Observe the surroundings of your house.

Describe it. Are your surroundings healthy? 

Write a plan on how you can keep your home surroundings healthy.

Content (3)____

Structure(2)____

Total(5)________

Let’s Check! 

Let’s Do this at Home 

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Lesson 8: Healthy Choice  

 

Poem Reading

Read the poem and try to act it out.

Life is What We Make It by Minerva C. David

In life we always make A choice we have to take.

It may be good or bad, Be happy or be sad.

Healthy foods, we must eat,

Bad habits we must beat. Smoking and drinking,

Not good for our well-being.

Life is what we make it. We can be sick or fit,

Follow health practices, Say goodbye to diseases.

Let’s Try! 

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Activity 1: Healthy Habits Encircle the pictures that show healthful habits.

Let’s Do! 

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Activity 2: Healthy Story

Use the pictures to make a short story about healthful practices.

Write your answers in your notebook.

Healthy and Happy Together

Lito and Sila always help in _____(1)_______

the house. They make sure that their surroundings are clean. They also keep

their bodies clean.

Before eating, Sila _______(2)_____________.

Sila loves to eat________(3)____________ and Lito too.

They keep their bodies fit by ___(4)______ .

They also have regular_________(5)_________.

They are happy and healthy children.

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Activity 3: Checklist for the Parents

Ask your parents to put a check in the box that matches your lifestyle. Copy and do this in your notebook.

Lifestyle YES NO 1. Take a bath daily. 2. Play all day long. 3. Drink milk everyday. 4. Stay up late every night. 5. Eat fruits and vegetables. 6. Help in household chores. 7. Sleep for 8-10 hours daily. 8. Watch TV most of the time. 9. Drink softdrinks after every meal.

10 . Play video games during free time.

______________________________ Parent’s Signature

Activity 4: Healthful Prayer

Write a short prayer for good health and for you and your family.

Dear God 

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Daily Record Record your daily activities. Check if they are healthful for you.

MY DAILY ACTIVITIES What I Eat Breakfast: _________________________ Lunch: ____________________________ Dinner: ____________________________ My Active Games I walk _____________________________

I run ______________________________

I play _____________________________

My Rest and Sleep

I rest when I am ______________________

I slept at_____________________ last night.

I woke up at ______________.

I slept for ______________ hours.

Let’s Check!